Gail.
This woman has the most patience I’ve ever seen in a white-haired lady. Gail works in the library and specializes in research and is pretty much a walking guide to databases. My writing class has had about 3 classes with her, going over finding sources, creating citations, and how to get the most out of the databases SCU offers.
She clearly loves what she does, because if she didn’t, she definitely wouldn’t be here at SCU teaching research to a bunch of college first-years in a required writing class. Although every time I’ve met with her we’ve done something a little bit different… this past week when my writing class met with her (sans professor) we spent a good portion of our time practicing annotated bibliographies…
right after we turned in our assigned annotated bibliographies.
However, we did touch on how to introduce authors inside a research paper, and how it differs from introducing sources in an annotated bibliography. This will be helpful over the next few days as I compose my final research paper (scary -help me).
That being said, the 11 of us who were there still enjoyed our weekly dose of Gail. And after reviewing annotated bibs with her, I am pretty confident I did my right. So, although I didn’t learn that much new information, I got a pretty stellar confident boost for the rest of the day. 🙂